• Establish and evolve our Azure approach for SaaS products (environments, identity/access patterns, secrets management). • Introduce pragmatic infrastructure practices that improve repeatability and clarity (infrastructure-as-code where it adds value). • Define baseline security and operational hygiene appropriate for government-adjacent software. • Define and implement CI/CD and release workflows that support frequent delivery and safe rollback. • Establish observability standards (logs, metrics, traces), with dashboards and alerting that shorten time-to-diagnosis. • Lead and improve incident response practices and ensure follow-up work translates into measurable reliability improvements. • Help shape backend patterns aligned with vertical slice architecture, keeping boundaries clear and complexity low. • Contribute to backend services and APIs in C#/.NET as needed, emphasizing maintainability and operational clarity. • Guide data access practices using EF Core and SQL Server (migrations, safe change management, performance fundamentals). • Mentor domain-expert engineers transitioning to modern stacks and practices, and help establish working agreements that make modernization sustainable (code review, pairing, technical guidance, standards-by-example). • Produce lightweight runbooks and architecture notes so knowledge is shared and durable. • Partner with the CTO and product/design leadership to sequence platform work that enables product delivery (without over-engineering).